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'Islamabad News' - 173 News Result(s)

ISIS has killed two Chinese teachers it kidnapped in Pakistan's southwestern Baluchistan province last month, the terror group's Amaq news agency said on Thursday, in a blow to Islamabad's efforts to safeguard Chinese workers.

Asking Pakistan to clamp down on terror and extremist groups, a top US lawmaker has cautioned Islamabad that India would not sit idly if its soldiers or citizens were being attacked. Joe Crowley, the chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, told news agency PTI that the situation on the Line of Control - de facto border between India and Pakistan -...

Dawood Ibrahim, India's most-wanted, is in a critical condition at a hospital in Pakistan's Karachi, media reports say. The 61-year-old underworld don suffered a heart attack and was admitted to the Aga Khan Hospital in the city, according to unverified reports. But Dawood Ibrahim's close aide Chhota Shakeel dismissed the reports, saying he was fin...

Pakistan's former interior minister Rehman Malik on Saturday fell for a April Fool's Day prank when he reacted to a fake news story about naming of Islamabad's new airport after Chinese President Xi Jinping.

India has fast-tracked hydro-power projects worth $15 billion in Kashmir in recent months, according to news agency Reuters, which based its report on three unnamed central and state officials. The acceleration by India ignores warnings from Islamabad that power stations on rivers flowing into Pakistan will disrupt water supplies.

India has rebuffed Pakistan's attempt to raise the Kashmir issue at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, by denouncing Islamabad as the global "epicenter" of terrorism and accused it of trying to destabilize the state.

Prominent Pakistani academic and human rights activist Salman Haider, who went missing earlier this month from Islamabad, is "fine and safe" and has returned home, his brother Zeeshan Haider confirmed to Dawn.

Pakistan's Defence Minister threatened Israel that his country could use nuclear weapons after a fake news report that his Israeli counterpart had threatened "nuclear retaliation" for Islamabad's role in Syria, highlighting the serious problem proliferation of fake news poses.

A Pakistani plane carrying 48 people crashed on Wednesday in the country's mountainous north and burst into flames, authorities said, as rescue workers pulled dozens of bodies from the wreckage and officials expressed little hope for survivors.

'Islamabad News' - 173 News Result(s)

ISIS has killed two Chinese teachers it kidnapped in Pakistan's southwestern Baluchistan province last month, the terror group's Amaq news agency said on Thursday, in a blow to Islamabad's efforts to safeguard Chinese workers.

Asking Pakistan to clamp down on terror and extremist groups, a top US lawmaker has cautioned Islamabad that India would not sit idly if its soldiers or citizens were being attacked. Joe Crowley, the chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, told news agency PTI that the situation on the Line of Control - de facto border between India and Pakistan -...

Dawood Ibrahim, India's most-wanted, is in a critical condition at a hospital in Pakistan's Karachi, media reports say. The 61-year-old underworld don suffered a heart attack and was admitted to the Aga Khan Hospital in the city, according to unverified reports. But Dawood Ibrahim's close aide Chhota Shakeel dismissed the reports, saying he was fin...

Pakistan's former interior minister Rehman Malik on Saturday fell for a April Fool's Day prank when he reacted to a fake news story about naming of Islamabad's new airport after Chinese President Xi Jinping.

India has fast-tracked hydro-power projects worth $15 billion in Kashmir in recent months, according to news agency Reuters, which based its report on three unnamed central and state officials. The acceleration by India ignores warnings from Islamabad that power stations on rivers flowing into Pakistan will disrupt water supplies.

India has rebuffed Pakistan's attempt to raise the Kashmir issue at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, by denouncing Islamabad as the global "epicenter" of terrorism and accused it of trying to destabilize the state.

Prominent Pakistani academic and human rights activist Salman Haider, who went missing earlier this month from Islamabad, is "fine and safe" and has returned home, his brother Zeeshan Haider confirmed to Dawn.

Pakistan's Defence Minister threatened Israel that his country could use nuclear weapons after a fake news report that his Israeli counterpart had threatened "nuclear retaliation" for Islamabad's role in Syria, highlighting the serious problem proliferation of fake news poses.

A Pakistani plane carrying 48 people crashed on Wednesday in the country's mountainous north and burst into flames, authorities said, as rescue workers pulled dozens of bodies from the wreckage and officials expressed little hope for survivors.

A Pakistan police officer has admitted that India indeed carried out surgical strikes in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and killed at least five soldiers and several terrorists in an operation that Islamabad denies happened, news channel CNN News18 reported on Wednesday.

Following India's claim that it launched "surgical strikes" on the terrorist launch pads across the Line of Control in Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir today, China has said that Beijing was in touch with both New Delhi and Islamabad through "various channels".

China today hoped that there will be a better understanding of Pakistan's position on Kashmir by the international community and that Beijing attaches great importance to Islamabad's position on Kashmir.

Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has held separate meetings with US Secretary of State John Kerry and his British counterpart Theresa May during which he urged the two countries to help resolve issues between Islamabad and New Delhi.

Pakistan has not stopped Afghan traders from moving products to India through the Wagah border, authorities said after Afghan President Ashraf Ghani warned Islamabad to open the land border or lose transit route to Central Asia.

Pakistan's top Foreign Affairs Advisor Sartaj Aziz has said Islamabad's credentials for the membership of Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) are stronger than India's if the 48-nation cartel agrees to form a uniform criteria for non-Non Proliferation Treaty (NPT) states.

Pakistan will acquire F-16 fighter jets from elsewhere if the US does not arrange funding for the sale, Sartaj Aziz, the prime minister's adviser on foreign affairs, cautioned the US as both countries lock horns over the purchase of the multirole warplanes.

The US has said its ties with Pakistan are a "vital relationship" that it strongly believes in, but acknowledged that both don't see eye to eye on every issue, amid strain in ties with Islamabad over blocking the sale of F-16s.